Song Jie stood there for a while, found that no one cared about him, and also found a new position and played with the mud again.

After calming the emotions of several little girls, the old man glanced at them, and when he saw that they were all playing with each other, he simply returned to the old elm tree, and no one cared.

Time flies, ten years have passed in a blink of an eye, and all the children of the past have reached the age of about twenty.

The small mountain village is too remote, and there is only one teacher in the village. On this day, Ye Chen and the others ended their school career, and after saying goodbye to the teacher, they made an appointment to go fishing by the river.

A group of five of them, three men and two women, hurried slowly to the river. Ye Chen walked in the front, holding a fishing rod and throwing it around.

A girl walked side by side with him, carrying some food in her hand, and glancing at Ye Chen from time to time when she walked, obviously meaning something to him.

This girl's name is Ling Qianxue, she has a good face, a slender figure, skin like snow, especially a pair of big eyes, as long as she stares at people, it will always make people embarrassed.

Her family was relatively wealthy in this village, otherwise she would not have been allowed to go to school like those boys.

When they arrived at the river, Ye Chen and the three of them walked back and forth along the riverbank, trying to find an excellent fishing spot. The two girls sat behind them, talking and laughing and peeling melon seeds.

"Ye Chen, can you give me your position? I'm not very good at finding a fishing position. ”

A handsome man walked towards Ye Chen with a fishing rod, Ye Chen glanced at him helplessly, got up and gave him his place.

"Thank you!"

The man smiled and thanked him, then sat down in his seat and fished. Ye Chen went back to find a suitable fishing position. ”

"Brother Aoxue is so embarrassed, he can't even find a position, and he has to rob Ye Chen. The girl who was with Ling Qianxue said in pieces.

Ling Qianxue smiled when she heard this, "Hehe, it's not his fault, he is strict at home, and he rarely comes out on weekdays, so he naturally doesn't understand this." ”

The girl pursed her lips, glanced at Ling Qianxue, and found that she was staring at Ye Chen, and said with a wicked smile: "Sister Qianxue, how are you and Ye Chen's development?

"Yang Ling'er, don't talk nonsense, Ye Chen and I are pure friends, not what you said. ”

Ling Qianxue's face turned red all of a sudden, her eyes dodged, and she no longer stared at Ye Chen. Yang Ling'er was embarrassed to see Ling Qianxue, and she was even more sure of her conjecture.

"Come on, look at Ye Chen like that, his eyes are confused, you can know that you like him at a glance, why don't you look at Brother Aoxue and their eyes like that? ”

Yang Ling'er continued to joke, Ling Qianxue was already shy, and when she said this, she buried her head deeply, not daring to look at her.

"Ling'er, this ............ , you won't tell anyone, right?" Ling Qianxue blushed and whispered.

"We're good sisters, of course I won't tell anyone! But if you look at the way he looks, anyone who has a little bit of a snack can see that you are interested in him, and maybe someone already knows that you like him, but they just haven't debunked it. ”

Yang Ling'er propped up her chin, looking eccentric, her eyes blinking and staring at Ling Qianxue non-stop, and she was uncomfortable looking at her.

"Oops...... What can I do? ”

Ling Qianxue moaned and hugged her head suddenly. She is such a quiet girl, and it is very embarrassing for her to be seen in her mind.

"It's normal for men and women to love each other! be bold and be brave enough to tell him otherwise?"

Yang Ling'er gently touched her with her arm and motioned for her to go and show her heart to Ye Chen. But as soon as Ling Qianxue saw Ye Chen, she retreated in her heart, and she couldn't muster up her courage for a long time.

"Here comes the fish!"

Just when Ling Qianxue was hesitating, Gongsun Aoxue, a half-hanger, was the first to catch a fish, and he excitedly picked up the fish and ran to Ling Qianxue's side.

"Wow, Brother Aoxue is so powerful. ”

Yang Ling'er laughed and kept clapping her hands, Ling Qianxue raised her head slightly, just as Yang Ling'er said about her just now, she looked at Gongsun Aoxue with starry eyes.

"Okay, you Ling'er, you still say me, you're not the same. ”

Ling Qianxue also followed Yang Ling'er's example and teased her, which made Gongsun Aoxue confused.

"What are you talking about? Why can't I understand?" Gongsun Aoxue scratched his head and said.

"Leave her alone, Brother Aoxue, you caught the fish, let's bake it together, right?"

The shrewd Yang Ling'er suddenly diverted the topic and found a wooden stick to skewer the fish.

Gongsun Aoxue didn't go back to fishing, he didn't know how to catch it in the first place, it was all up to his luck to catch it so quickly, and he might not be able to catch it again if he went fishing.

He lit a fire and grilled the fish with the two girls. Before the fish was baked, Ye Chen and another person also caught the fish one after another. The two of them quickly cleaned up the fish and roasted it with Gongsun Aoxue.

Originally, they didn't come out to fish this time, but now that all three of them have caught fish, they naturally don't want to continue fishing.

Several people chatted while roasting, confiding in each other their hopes for the future.

Gongsun Aoxue's family is well-off, he is naturally unwilling to stay in this small mountain village for the rest of his life, he wants to go out to see the outside world, and hopes to break out of his own world.

When he revealed his thoughts, Ling Qianxue noticed a significant change in Yang Ling'er's face. She is a daughter's family, so naturally she can't be like Gongsun Aoxue, and go outside to show her face.

Even if the family is quite solid, Ling Qianxue and Yang Ling'er don't have the opportunity to go out like Gongsun Aoxue, unless they get the consent of their family or go out with their father, and these two possibilities are almost non-existent.

The idea of male dominance and female dominance has been ingrained since ancient times, especially in this remote mountain village, women are not allowed to go out at will after school and before marriage, otherwise it will make people gossip behind their backs.

Ye Chen and the other man did not have the 'grand ambition' of Gongsun Aoxue, and that man's family background was not as good as that of Gongsun Aoxue, so it was naturally impossible to go out as soon as he said it.

Although Ye Chen's family is not rich, Jiang Yingyue has also saved a little by selling tofu for so many years, although Ye Chen also wants to go out to see the outside world, but he can't let go of his mother, who works day and night, so he has to give up.

The five of them didn't stay long by the river before eventually going back. With the two girls, Ling Qianxue and Yang Ling'er, Ye Chen really didn't dare to delay until the evening as usual, which would ruin their reputation, and those old men would say that they didn't understand etiquette.

After more than a month like this, Ye Chen had never seen Ling Qianxue, so naturally he didn't understand her thoughts. During this period, Gongsun Aoxue also went out to wander, and the day before he went out, he also came to find Ye Chen and played happily with him for a day.

Since they stopped going to school, they rarely see each other in a group. Those from good families were sent out of the small mountain villages, and those from poor families worked all day to help their parents work, and rarely had the opportunity to get together again.

On this day, Ye Chen, who had nothing to do, wandered around the village randomly. Before I knew it, I was under the old elm tree.

There was still a group of children playing under the tree, and there was still a child pinching the mud on the bluestone slab where he used to play with the mud. It's just that now that they have grown up in a blink of an eye, and it is difficult to get together again, thinking of this, Ye Chen couldn't help but leave a tear.

"Hey, who are you, stinky boy, what are you doing here? This is a place for kids to play, not for you. ”

A familiar voice suddenly came out behind him, and Ye Chen wiped away his tears after hearing this, and turned around with a smile.

"Ye Chen, is that you stinky boy?"

The old man was shocked when he saw this, he didn't expect Ye Chen to come here. In the past, Ye Chen went to school when he was a little more than ten years old, and he has never been under this old elm tree since.

"It's me, Grandpa Hua, I didn't expect to see you for ten years, you are still the same as before. When you were young and ignorant, you rushed at you recklessly, and I hope you don't want to go to your heart. ”

Ye Chen bowed to the old man as he spoke. And the old man also smiled very generously and beckoned him to sit down.

"You kid, you were the most difficult when you were a child, you don't listen to the stories I tell, you don't have to say I'm a liar, tell other children not to listen to me brag. ”

"Huh. ”

Ye Chen smiled when he heard this, and said, "That's not like you tell the same story all day long, and you don't change it to a new one." What kind of heroes, immortals, etc., I'm tired of hearing it, besides, are there really gods in this world?"

"No, that's just that you haven't encountered it, or that sentence, just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean it doesn't exist............"

The old man, as always, talked to Ye Chen again, and after a while, he went around Ye Chen again.

"Stop. ”

Ye Chen saw that the more he chatted, the more energetic he became, and immediately stopped him again.

"I used to be young and ignorant, and I didn't believe anything you said, but now that I'm older, I believe in heroes or something, but it's a little unrealistic for you to say that there are gods in this world. ”

"Hehe, what happens when you grow up? You are still in this small mountain village, and your vision is always limited to this. I haven't gone out to see the world, let alone a person in the rivers and lakes, so I naturally don't know what a god is. ”

The old man stroked his white beard as he spoke, and his face was confident, as if he had seen a fairy.

"Immortals, are there really any?"

Ye Chen scratched his head, still a little unbelieving the old man's nonsense. The invisible and untouchable existence of immortals is indeed a bit difficult for people to believe.

The old man saw that Ye Chen had a trace of doubt, and said, "There is an ancient legend in this world. It is said that there is a kind of divine object ten thousand years ago, called colorful dragon scales, which is related to the mystery of becoming an immortal, for which many people have been fighting openly and secretly for thousands of years, and they all want to snatch it to get a glimpse. ”